Thanks goes out to Alex Balk of the wonderful website The Awl for mentioning that it’s Bourbon Day. According to Wikipedia and seemingly a thousand websites that get their information from Wikipedia, on this date in 1789, Dr. Elijah Craig put his corn-distilled whiskey in charred oak barrels. While the Craig story is generally considered a charming, but utterly false legend, that shouldn’t keep us from enjoying a glass a bit later, should it?
This article appears in Jun 13-19, 2013.
Well, I’ll drink a Marked Man straight up to that!
Maker’s Mark, the best there is.